Um, what’s the problem? Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek are tremendously influential figures, not just in the field of economics. Can a truly honest study of the past century ignore their contributions to the world? I don’t think so. Mention them and criticize them if you must, but don’t ignore them.

I will say this though, this issue could easily be avoided if the government didn’t directly run schools.

2 Responses to Hayek to join Marx in the School Curriculum

Hayek on the curriculum is good. The extreme politicisation is of education is very bad. What in effect we have here is politicians trying to force their values on each others children. Also having Hayek associated with causes like the denial of evolution and religious fundamentalism is not good at all, and ironic given Hayeks explicit support for biological evolution as a partial explanations for human values, and constitutions that do not privilege some peoples values over others.

This just opens the deserved addition of Hayek to the curriculum to mindless partisan attack & removal as soon as the political winds change. It would be preferable for parents to decide what is taught at each school through profit based competition, or failing that vouchers ect.